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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The 2024 Trump campaign yard signs were appropriations of Orwell's slogan "Four Legs Good / Two Legs Bad", it wasn't a subtle homage. Worked out well for them! Trump Campaign: At long last, we have created the Utopian society described in the classic fantasy novel Animal Farm

Four 2024 Trump campaign yard signs, all of the format "Trump {good thing} / Kamala {bad thing}"

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The 2024 yard signs used by the Trump Campaign. These were extremely common in PA.

A picture showing 4 yards signs used by the 2024 Trump campaign, all with the format "Trump {something good} / Kamala {something bad}"

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some updates of those 2024 Trump yard signs for 2026

An update of a 2024 Trump Campaign yard sign which read "Trump Low Prices / Kamala High Prices 2024". This reads "Dems Low Prices / GOP High Prices 2026"

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The concept would make a good module for the 2017 RPG "Papers & Paychecks", don't quit your day job though

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you for voting to not table H.Res. 1486! I note that 70% of your Dem colleagues voted with you. That's great, and I hope it means the Democratic Party will be more assertive about pursuing impeachment in the future.

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

So you are voting yes on H.Res. 1486 today? www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

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H. RES. 1486 (Introduced-in-House)

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You might enjoy a mash-up I made of a Pistols song with images from insane Trump tweets. They go together well! drive.google.com/file/d/1XrBJ...

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Monarchy_In_The_USA_26.07.15.mp4

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Thank you! I hope my Representative @scanlon.house.gov joins you as a co-sponsor

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I'm in the same boat, and just today added an Oransi for carbon filtration to supplement our HEPA filters (Winix). We'll see if my wife likes it. I can't opine myself because I am super-insensitive to smells.

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Interesting topic! Fun fact - the most famous anti-fascist song from that guitar - All You Fascists Bound To Lose - probably didn't kill many WWII fascists simply because it wasn't released on a record until 2001. (Probably lots of live performances, though.) www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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The 100 Best Protest Songs of All Time

From Pete Seeger to Billie Holiday to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, musicians of all genres have spoken truth to power

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

many are saying bsky.app/profile/greg...

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Agreed, that's pretty bad! High crimes and misdemeanors level bad! Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach Impeach

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Trump's ravings on Truth Social are captured into a searchable archive by the never-Trump group of Conservatives 'Defending Democracy Together'. Very useful to observe the madness without having create an account. trumpstruth.org

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Trump's Truth

'Trump's Truth' is a searchable archive of Donald Trump's posts on TRUTH Social.

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

That is a moving passage, but as usual with the Bible I am left shaking my head at the editor's choices. Why the redundant "...the Egyptians fondled your bosom and caressed your young breasts" when they could have condensed to the punchier "...the Egyptians fondled your young titties"?

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"Not long after, while the raft floated placidly along the river, the sun gave an alarming pulse. A purple film formed upon the surface like tarnish, then dissolved. Certain of the pilgrims ran back and forth in alarm, crying, 'The sun goes dark! Prepare for the chill!'"

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I WON'T EXCEED THE LEGAL SPEED FOR YOOOOOOOUUU </JoeStrummer> #RejectConformity

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

"We hate ourselves and we can't govern!"

Simpson frame showing Democratic National Convention

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Good history lesson and rant! The punks and post-punks also had serious problems with kings, and the House of Windsor wasn't spared from their righteous (musical) wrath

The back of the Gang of Four's album Solid Gold, which features a woodcut illustration of the execution of Charles I. The caption below the illustration has been slightly modified to read "I hope they keep down the price of eggs."

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Googling it, centibillionaire is commonly used with the meaning you intended (net worth of 100+ billion). Whoever first crafted it was riffing on 'cent=100', and not referring to the SI prefixes.

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Bezos has a valid point that doubling his taxes won't help anyone, doubling a very small number nets you little, after all. Quibble: isn't a centibillionaire someone with a net worth of ~$10 million? Bezos & Musk are hectobillionaires or decitrillionaires. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_...

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Metric prefix - Wikipedia

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law Angela Chao had been driving a VW Bug instead of a Tesla, things might have gone differently after she accidentally reversed into a pond www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qPu...

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VW Beetle Commercial - Floating

YouTube video by 1967VWResto

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

If that's Marxism, then Karl Marx wasn't a Marxist

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Yes, it's probably an intentional tribute to the CSA

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Swedish text translates to "Kafka didn't have much fun either"

A black/white photo of a shirt with a picture of Franz Kafka on it.

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Excellent thread, and always great to see feedback loop concept in the wild

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Many people use ChatGPT as part of their search engine needs. I'm basically proposing a much smaller version of ChatGPT that only uses legal sources to train it, and is run openly not privately. How is this proposed project not possible? ChatGPT exists!

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

OK, but why is that relevant? Pueringer solved a problem using 1) community involvement to provide 2) legal data to 3) train an LLM. My post suggests that these 3 components could perhaps work on a different problem: that Googling now only returns free garbage info, and not paywalled good info.

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The LLM would be mainly serving the function of a search engine, one that points you towards sources judged relevant to the query. Maybe some summary or opining would be useful, those functions could be turned off by the user. The main thing is search engines need a way to get past paywalls.

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Could one make an ethical Search Engine AI along the same lines? • Train LLM on open sources like Wikimedia, and also paywalled ones via gift links (GLs) • LLM requests reader support via GLs, and also donations to its sources If nothing else, this would create a community for the sharing of GLs

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Good post, a refinement for the (fictional) fact check - use the fact that people process numbers best in terms of things familiar to them. "In FY2025, if your household paid $10,000 in federal taxes, $1.07 of this would have gone to the WHO to fight diseases like COVID."

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Why has the FBI director's book "The Plot Against The King" been mocked so little here on Bluesky? Because its portrayal of Donald's royal pretensions and Kash's alcoholism hits too close to home?

A image from the book written by Kash Patel, "The Plot Against The King", showing 'King Donald' and 'Kash the Great Wizard and Distinguished Discoverer' with their glasses raised in a toast. They are celebrating King Donald's elevation to the throne.

The text reads "With that, the Kingdom was Made Great Again, and from that day on, they lived happily ever after."

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Games Theory is a good way of viewing it. I want to see Dems using Axelrod 'Tit-For-Tat' for a strategy, instead of the Clinton 'They-Go-Low-We-Go-High' or the Schumer 'Fetal-Position' strategies which are currently so popular. Is that too much to ask? (yes)

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Regarding timing of 'until republicans agree'. REDMAP started in 2010 and GOP has reaped its benefits ever since. If they ask for a ceasefire we of course agree, but set the date for that to happen for after they've paid their electoral debt. Don't reward cheaters! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDMAP

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REDMAP - Wikipedia

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Excellent article on why it is a mistake to withhold your vote (at this time, in the US). It doesn't discuss, or note in passing, why there are only two viable US parties. A similar essay on this separate topic would complement this one nicely. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverge...

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Duverger's law - Wikipedia

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Trump and the Republicans spent years loudly claiming - incorrectly - that Obama was disqualified from being President. Dem leadership must be against anyone making correct A14S3 claims that Trump is disqualified. Is the reason for this that it would conflict with the 'Play Dead' strategy?

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Is there an old thread on the topic of S3 disqualification? If not, what would be involved in getting the ball rolling?

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I'll report back if I find a good article, it's early yet

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I've been worrying about that myself. Can you point me to any recommended articles on how exactly the opposition to Orban worked together?

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is outstanding news! Thank you! So you will be co-sponsoring Larson's H.Res 1155, and using Rule IX to bring it to a vote? Bravo! Hurrah! You have the thanks of a grateful nation!

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Travis Mitchell @travismitchell.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In that example the villain was killed before he could set off the explosives, whew

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